Friday, June 13, 2008
Blue Wallpaper with You Have Spyware Message
I ran into this spyware the other day on a computer. It changed the wallpaper to blue and had a message on the wallpaper saying "You Have Spyware"! It also removed the tabs from the Display Properties screen so that I could not adjust the wallpaper. Here is what fixed it:
1. Installed AVG Free Antivirus, then scanned and removed spyware/viruses
2. Downloaded and ran SmitFraudFix
3. Downloaded HijackThis and removed suspicious entries (if you are not sure what suspicious entries are then go to www.iamnotageek.com and it can analyze the HiJackThis log for you)
4. Downloaded & ran LSPFix
Best Backup Solution for Small & Large Businesses
Long gone are the days of people backing up to tape, THANKFULLY!!! If you are still on tape backups I strongly recommend you get away from them. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to pull my hair out attempting to get data to restore from these things.
I have been using the Sonicwall CDP units for about 2 years now and I LOVE LOVE LOVE these backup devices. They backup every computer on your network in real time. They store multiple revisions of each file and make restoring files a breeze. I finally have all of my clients off of tapes and a lot of them running the CDP device. If you are thinking of purchasing one of these I say go for it. I haven't had one fail me yet.
I have been using the Sonicwall CDP units for about 2 years now and I LOVE LOVE LOVE these backup devices. They backup every computer on your network in real time. They store multiple revisions of each file and make restoring files a breeze. I finally have all of my clients off of tapes and a lot of them running the CDP device. If you are thinking of purchasing one of these I say go for it. I haven't had one fail me yet.
Notesmith 2008 Data Lost...Almost
I have a client running Notesmith 2008 and their computer locked up and they had to hard shutdown. When they booted up they found that their data was no longer accessible. Notesmith 2008 would open, but you couldn't see any of the client list. More bad news, their backup had been modified by an employee and no longer included Notesmith data. So, here is what we found out. Notesmith automatically backs up every five days. It creates a backup zip file in the folder c:\princeton\notesmith 200x\data\backup\zip. The way to get the data back is below:
1. Open Notesmith 2008
2. Click File, Utilities
3. Select the restore button
4. Change the drive letter from A to C (until you do this you will not be able to proceed)
5. Click zip file and then click restore
It will automatically bring up your backups and then you can select the backup file you want to restore. Hope this saves someone some frustration. This is the first time in 8 years I've set someone up on a backup system and then the settings were change and data was ALMOST lost. Fortunately, the story has a good ending. The data was recovered and of course we setup a new backup system so this doesn't happen again!
1. Open Notesmith 2008
2. Click File, Utilities
3. Select the restore button
4. Change the drive letter from A to C (until you do this you will not be able to proceed)
5. Click zip file and then click restore
It will automatically bring up your backups and then you can select the backup file you want to restore. Hope this saves someone some frustration. This is the first time in 8 years I've set someone up on a backup system and then the settings were change and data was ALMOST lost. Fortunately, the story has a good ending. The data was recovered and of course we setup a new backup system so this doesn't happen again!
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